Here are the 10 most popular iPhone apps of all time

In honour of the App Store’s 10th birthday – it launched in July 2008 – app analytics firm App Annie has compiled a comprehensive look at the most popular apps of the last 10 years.

Facebook took the crown as the most downloaded iPhone app of all time, but there are plenty of surprising runners up: Snapchat made the list, despite reports that user growth is slowing. And even though both Apple and Google make their own video chatting apps, Skype is still one of the most popular apps in the world.

Here are the 10 most-downloaded iPhone apps of the last decade:

10. QQ

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QQ is an app created by Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent. The app offers Facebook Messenger-style instant messaging, along with online games, music, shopping, and more.

9. WeChat

8. Skype

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Skype, which Microsoft bought for $US8.5 billion in 2012, has been downloaded over a billion times on smartphones. The app got a face lift in 2017, which has helped it better compete with the likes of Apple’s FaceTime and Facebook Messenger.

7. Snapchat

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Snapchat launched on the App Store as Picaboo in 2011, and is now one of the most popular apps of all time. As of February, Snapchat had 191 million daily users.

6. Google Maps

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Google Maps is perpetually among the top 10 apps in the App Store, and is the sixth most-popular app of all time.